Pulliam, June Michele.

Monstrous bodies : feminine power in young adult horror fiction / June Pulliam. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2014. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Subversive spirits: resistance and the uncanny in the young adult ghost story -- Blood and bitches: sexual politics and the female lycanthrope in young adult fiction -- "An ye harm none, do as ye will": magic, gender and agency in young adult narratives of witchcraft -- conclusion.

"This book examines three types of female monstrous Others in young adult fiction and considers what each has to tell us about feminine subordination in a supposedly post-feminist world, where girls continue to be pressured to silence their voices and stifle their desires in conformity with contemporary ideas about what it means to be a good woman"--



9781476616636


Young adult literature--History and criticism.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Women in literature.
Horror in literature.
Young adults--Books and reading.


Electronic Books.

PN1009 / .M667 2014